To get ideas for my psych class, I went around asking people what was wrong with the world.
I got 133 responses, but that’s too long a list to type up. Here are some of the more relevant/common ones:
1. Stress from classes
2. You can’t feed the food you didn’t finish to starving children
3. Transparency issues (you can’t read people’s minds)
4. Complacency
5. Leadership structures
6. People who think there’s nothing wrong
7. People who don’t think or ask questions
8. People who are too self absorbed
9. People
10. Today
11. People who don’t live in today
12. Not enough meaningful human interactions
13. Fear of change
14. Fear of communication
15. Fear of strangers
16. Fear of commitment
17. Fear of being blunt/straightforward
18. Inconsiderate people
19. Loneliness
Out of this list, I'm hoping to derive something concrete enough to change in the world around me. I haven't picked anything specific yet, but what strikes me is the commonality of the conclusion that the biggest problems our world faces are people and human mental constructs. That means that not only are we our own greatest obstacles, but we know it. And most people are too frightened or self-satisfied to do anything about it.
Iut.
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